Meta to Launch AI-Powered Chatbots With Totally different Personalities by September: Report

Meta Platforms is getting ready to launch a spread of synthetic intelligence (AI) powered chatbots that exhibit completely different personalities as quickly as September, the Monetary Occasions reported on Tuesday.

Meta has been designing prototypes for chatbots that may have humanlike discussions with its customers, as the corporate makes an attempt to spice up its engagement with its social media platforms, in line with the report, citing individuals with data of the plans.

The Menlo Park, California-based social media big is even exploring a chatbot that speaks like Abraham Lincoln and one other that advises on journey choices within the fashion of a surfer, the report added. The aim of those chatbots will probably be to supply a brand new search perform in addition to supply suggestions.

The report comes as Meta executives are specializing in boosting retention on its new text-based app Threads, after the app misplaced greater than half of its customers within the weeks following its launch on July 5.

Meta didn’t instantly reply to a Reuters request for remark.

The Fb dad or mum reported a powerful rise in promoting income in its earnings final week, forecasting third-quarter income above market expectations.

The corporate has been climbing again from a bruising 2022, buoyed by hype round rising AI expertise and an austerity drive wherein it has shed round 21,000 staff since final fall.

Bloomberg Information reported in July that Apple is engaged on AI choices just like OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s Bard, including that it has constructed its personal framework, referred to as ‘Ajax’, to create massive language fashions and can also be testing a chatbot that some engineers name ‘Apple GPT’.

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